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| Stroll the colorful galleries of one of the northwest's finest art galleries, and then hear a world-class guitarist perform at the 2006-7 Frye Art Museum Concert Series 
Remember these concerts are free and an excellent entertainment for the seasoned guitar aficionado as well as a perfect introduction for the novice player or listener. Come, bring your friends, and be amazed at the wealth of talent that the SCGS is able to bring to the Seattle audience through the generous support of member donations and grants - the artists are paid, but the admission is free! This line-up features period performances from a Nineteenth-Century
specialist, a great selection of Segovia repertoire from a protégé of
Pepe Romero, an emerging new composer/guitarist talent who wins high
praise from Roland Dyens and Sergio Assad, and a welcome return visit
from the Texan Steve Kostelnik, who performed the first of our Frye
concerts back in 2002 and wowed the audience with his remarkable
virtuosity.
To read more about the
exceptional art work at one of Seattle's finest galleries: click here for more. You may want to catch the sound
sculpture Klompen by Seattle's legendary computer/art/music man, Trimpen.
Wooden shoes dancing under computer control. At the Frye through January 2007
Visit past years' Frye Concert listings:
The American guitarist Douglas James has appeared as a classical
guitarist throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Mexico.
Soundboard magazine has noted his performances to be filled with
"appealing intensity and obvious enthusiasm." The Arizona Daily Star
described his Bach as "warm and ornate" and his Spanish pieces
"downright
sexy." A noted proponent of period instrument performance, Dr. James
uses
19th century guitars when playing music of the Classical and Romantic
periods. In 1992 he was the top prize winner in the Arturo Toscanini
Solo
Guitar Competition (Italy). He has twice been awarded a National
Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship and has received
touring grants from Arts International and several state arts
commissions.
Always an active performer, James' recent concert schedule has
included
engagements at the Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the
Cleveland Institute of Music, numerous American guitar societies,
Piccolo
Spoleto, and the Stetson International Guitar Workshop. Dr. James has
served in the Artists-in-Residence program of the State of North
Carolina, and as a touring artist for the Southern Arts Federation and
the Arizona Commission on the Arts. He frequently serves as a judge for
important guitar competitions, including such events as the Guitar
Foundation of America International Solo Guitar Competition and the
GOLD
Competition at Oberlin Conservatory. As a radio recitalist, James has
been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today, as well as
special broadcasts on the major classical stations of Los Angeles,
Chicago, and New York. His critically acclaimed CD of Italian Romantic
solo guitar music performed on period guitars was recently followed by
the release of a duo CD with Italian guitarist Pasquale Rucco, Early
Romantic Music for Two Guitars. Both discs are on the Cala Vista
label.
Douglas James holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
University
of Arizona, where he studied guitar with Thomas Patterson. Dr. James is
currently Director of Guitar Studies and Appalachian Guitar Fest at
Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Feature
recitals at major music festivals include the Aspen Music Festival,
Darmstadt's Ferienkurs für Neue Musik (in the premiere of Spin-Curve
Foci. dedicated to him), Salzburg's Sommerakademie der Hochschule
Mozarteum, Vancouver New Music (in the premiere of Noche de Ronda, a
Canada Council commission for him), International Guitar and Lute
Institute, Stetson International Guitar Workshop, Guitar Foundation of
America International Conference, Northwest Guitar Festival, the
Paracho Festival de Guitarra, the Vancouver Festival, Early Music
Society of the Islands, CBC Festival de Printemps, Zihuatenejo
International Guitar Festival, and many others. A specialist on
nineteenth century guitars, Mr. Dunn will publish the first modern
edition of the collected duo-guitar repertoire of Beethoven in period
arrangements. He has collaborated with numerous musicians on
nineteenth-century instruments and vocalists and is regarded as one of
the finest performers on period guitars. Performances over past
seasons include concerts with the Winnipeg Symphony, a featured
performer at the Guitar Foundation of America International Festival,
the Boston Guitar Festival, Northeastern Guitar Festival, and the
Northwest Guitar Festival. Additionally, he has toured with the
Victoria Symphony and with the University of Victoria Chamber Singers
throughout numerous countries. He premiered Ligeti's Guitar
Sonata, the Canadian premiere of Reich's Nagoya Guitars with
guitarist David Tanenbaum, and recorded Beethoven's Op. 8 and 25
Serenades with members of the Lafayette Quartet. More recently, he
performed Beethoven duos with Romero and Tanenbaum, toured Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria ,Turkey and China with the UVic PRIMA Singers, and
will appear as concerto soloist with the Victoria Symphony and Pacific
Baroque Orchestra, as well as participating in numerous chamber music
programs. Mr. Dunn holds a Masters Degree in Performance from the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Ph.D. in musicology from the
University of California, San Diego, where he was a protégé of Pepe
Romero; his extensive summer studies were at the Aspen Music Festival
and the Salzburg Mozarteum He currently heads the guitar programs at
the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music in
British Columbia, Canada.
Described as "impassioned and having a keen ear for phrasing, as
well
as an ability to make a gentle, sublime musical statement," (Fort
Worth Star-Telegram) local guitarist Jason Williams
has
performed to
enthusiastic audiences in the northwest and in his native home of
Texas. A graduate of the University of North Texas, Jason holds a
Masters degree in Classical guitar Performance where he studied under
the guidance of Tom Johnson and British virtuoso Stanley Yates. During
his tenure in the masters program, Jason received two consecutive
teaching fellowships. In addition his studies led him to Spain where he
took lessons at the home of Jose Luis Rodrigo, with the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Madrid. He has performed in master classes
conducted by such virtuoso performers as Eliot Fisk, David Russell,
Eduardo Fernandez, Scott Tennant and Costas Cotsiolis. In 2001, Jason
moved to Seattle, Washington where he teaches at the Rosewood Guitar
and recently as affiliate at Western Washington University.
Jason made his professional debut with the Dallas Classic Guitar
Society where he was twice selected through blind audition tape to
perform for the Dallas Museum of Art series. Jason has been a top
finalist in the Northwest Guitar Festival and Competition and was
recently invited back to adjudicate the competition. Locally, Jason
has given performances for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society, in
ensemble for the University of Washington Contemporary Group Music
Series and 2005 Seattle Folklife Festival's "Secrets of the Six
Strings" to name a few.
An advocate of the classical guitar, Jason has served as Chair to the
Advisory board of the Dallas Classic Guitar Society as well as being
elected to the Board of Directors of the Seattle Classic Guitar Society
where he helps to promote the classical guitar through the prestigious
SCGS International series at Benaroya Hall.
Jason will be performing works by J.S Bach, Manuel de Falla, Máximo
Diego Pujol, Joaquín Turína and Roland Dyens. Look for a new CD to be
released in the Winter of 2007 featuring these composers.
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